Glossary

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Virginia Company

Patrick Henry

4th July 1776

battle

Benjamin Franklin

championed

commissioners

continental congress

Cornwallis

Declaration of Independence

delegate

democratic

dissatisfied

enlightenment

era

finance

government

home

House of Burgesses

independence

inherent

John Locke

journalist

Lexington and Concord

Loyalist

massacre

oppressive

parliament

patriot

philosophies

Phyllis Wheatley

proclamation

promote

property

protesters

pursuit of happiness

Quartering Act

rebellious

representation

resented

revolution

Revolutionary

rights

Saratoga

Shay's Rebellion

Stamp Act

surrender

taunting

taxation

Thomas Paine

treaty

unalienable

Yorktown